ANNAI worked closely with the METI for the last three years, conducting fundamental research and developing the system using an agile development methodology. In this blog post, we will describe the unique challenges of agile development involving Japanese ministry, the project's history, as well as the benefits.
ANNAI sponsored the stable release of the Group module and development of the Subgroup module.
CKEditor is a powerful and versatile web-based text editor commonly used in content management systems like Drupal. It empowers content creators and editors with a user-friendly interface for crafting and formatting text, incorporating multimedia elements, and managing a wide range of content types.
Microsoft recently killed their search engine's public API responsible for accepting sitemap ping requests (those where you let search engines know your XML sitemap's content has changed). They did so completely unannounced leading to logs filling up and users unsurprisingly assuming their sitemap submitting code was somehow at fault. It wasn't.
It became apparent that this was a step for Microsoft towards switching to the IndexNow protocol instead.
With IndexNow you now can quickly notify all participating search engines (Bing, Yandex) about a change that happened on your page eliminating the need to wait for them to come and scan your sitemap. The benefits of this approach are
Still, this new approach is more of a supplement than a revolution:
Can I submit all URLs for my site?
Use IndexNow to submit only URLs having changed (added, updated, or deleted) recently, including all URLs if all URLs have been changed recently. Use sitemaps to inform search engines about all your URLs. Search engines will visit sitemaps every few days.
After six months of work I'm delighted to tag the first stable release of the 4.x branch of the (Not-so-) Simple XML Sitemap module.
The project is in a really good place right now. At the moment of writing, drupal.org reports it being actively used on around 90k of Drupal 8/9 websites while having 0 open bug reports. This either means you people are lousy bug reporters, or we are doing a descent job at responding. :)
4.x makes much greater use of Drupal's entity API dropping some of its very specific chaining API. Feel free to take a look at the roadmap ticket for specifics.
We now have a much nicer UI for creating, editing and sorting sitemaps as well as sitemap types.
In a nutshell, sitemap variants are now sitemap entities. These are of a sitemap type (sitemap type entity) that is defined by URL generator plugins as well as sitemap generator plugins.
Occasionally I find myself needing plugin-like functionality, where users/downstream can throw a class into a folder and expect it to work. My script is supposed to find and instantiate these plugins during runtime without keeping track of their existence.
In a regular Drupal module, one would usually use the plugin architecture, but that comes with its overhead of boilerplate code and may not be the solution for the simplest of use cases.
Many class finder libraries rely on get_declared_classes() which may not be helpful, as the classes in question may not have been declared yet.
If you are on a Drupal 8/9 installation and want to use components already available to you, the Symfony (file) Finder can be an alternative for finding classes in a given namespace.
Ouside of Drupal 8/9, you may need to require this library in your application:
abgeordnetenwatch.de is not your generic community platform - it's a tool that actively creates and enforces communication channels between the people and their political representatives thereby strengthening the democratic process while also being a comprehensive source of information of the political system in Germany.
Because of that and because of the project's high functionality and high efficiency requirements, it is one gbyte is particularly proud to be involved in.
The project has recently won the Drupal Splash Awards 2020 for Germany & Austria in the non-profit category. It is a huge compliment to the small team of developers and to Parlamentwatch e. V. (the organization behind the service), as the Splash awards are regarded as the most prestigious award within the Drupal community.
Award ceremony: Youtube video (with timestamp)
Splash awards entry: Entry description
Drop us a line if you are interested in what makes this awesome project tick.
The answer is... generally run updates first. Whether to import or export the configuration afterwards depends on who updated the contrib code base.
If you are updating the contrib code base, run the database updates and then export the configuration, as updates tend to alter the configuration storage data which needs to be commited into the version control system:
When migrating content with the Drupal 8 migrate module, the creation and updating of new entities may fire lots of custom module hooks. This may or may not be desired; if you have found yourself here, it probably interferes with the source data in a problematic way, or unnecessarily slows down the migration process.
The cleanest way I found to stop specific hooks for specific migrations, is to add a dummy/meta field to the migration and check for its value in the hook.
In the process section of the migration, add a field with a name that will not interfere with any field name of the target entity:
This is a technical description of the 3.x branch of the module. For the newer 4.x branch, see this article.
The third major version of simple_sitemap has been long in the making bringing a more reliable generation process, a significantly more versatile API and many new functionalities. The first minor ugrade of the 3.x branch comes with views support and human readable sitemaps.
Views and views arguments supportIncluding view display URLs in the sitemap has been possible through adding these URLs as custom links in the UI (or via the API).
View variations created by view arguments however are tedious to include as one would have to include every version of the URL.
The integration of the simple_sitemap_views inside simple_sitemap 3.x makes it easily doable via the UI.
Thanks to @WalkingDexter for his tremendous work on this submodule!
Before: